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I’ve got health insurance again, for the first time in four or five years. You all know what that means! It’s time for a wasteful spree of unnecessary medical treatment! Anyone got any suggestions for some fun tests?
Ok, not really. It’s not that good of insurance, but it is infinitely preferable […]

Work is bad for you:
Sydney University academic Dr Caroline West says while work delivers self-esteem, income and social ties, more than four to six hours a day will bring anxiety, exhaustion and a poor quality of life.
“We’ve structured our lives so the majority of our waking life is devoted to work, which might bring us […]

For lunch today I took a TV dinner and a bottle of FUZE brand overpriced fruit drink, and it wasn’t until I was leaning against the counter waiting for the microwave to finish phase I of my lunch that it occured to me that I had paid a small premium for this dinner because it […]

I was standing in the express line at my local Acme the other day when I noticed that Women’s World promised to help me lose an ungodly amount of weight on the “Da Vinci Code Diet.” I was only able to glance at the article before it was my turn to pay for my […]

This is why I love the internets. Two health and fitness nuts who happen to know how to make databases and websites made this freakishly spectacular tool to help people appropriately analyize their food. I’ve been playing with it for about an hour so far and I haven’t even scratched the surface of […]

Dairy products are found to increase a woman’s chances of having twins. Fuck you, ice cream. Why do you have to be so delicious?
A study in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine showed milk drinkers were five times more likely to have twins than women who ate no animal products.
I was thinking of decreasing […]

I would, but I just got a dead bird tattooed on my arm yesterday*:
If all else fails, if family members can’t find her living will or can’t face the responsibility of ending life-sustaining measures, she said, then doctors will know her wishes by simply reading the tiny words that are tattooed over her sternum.
“I probably […]

I’m getting back into the yoga thing because it is freaking nice and I’m sorry I ever stopped. So I gather the necessary props-the mat, the video I use when there’s no class at my gym, a couple of blocks, you know, the material crap that goes along with yoga.
The video had a website […]

Federal health officials say they would like HIV testing to be as common as a cholesterol check.
Finally!
The guidelines for routine testing would apply to every American ages 13 to 64, according to the proposed plan by the U.S. Centers for Disease control and Prevention.
One-quarter of the 1 million Americans with the AIDS virus […]

There’s a discussion going on at Pandagon about Janet Crouse’s reaction to the Harvard School of Public Health’s article on an analysis of viginity pledges.
In a nutshell, the article says that teens, when asked, will lie about their sexual experience or about if they had or had not ever taken a virginity pledge. The […]

Because this could be a fun ride-if it gets into the hands of the right people:
Lesbians’ brains reacted somewhat, though not completely, like those of heterosexual men, a team of Swedish researchers said in Tuesday’s edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
A year ago, the same group reported findings for gay men that […]

This is one of them. However, I’ll pass on the vet bill.